About this title: "Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you." That's Bradley Chalker for you. He is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls, and the teachers say he has "serious behaviour problems." No one likes him - except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and she even enjoys his ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scholastic Canada, Limited
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780590590891ISBN:0590590898
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"My nine-year-old just read this, and urged me to do the same. My other kids liked it as well, and were eager to have a "family book club" on it so I happily took a break from "The Left Hand of Darkness" (a permanent one, as it turns out) to read this.
It's actually a very good children's book about two kids and their social difficulties; one who's simply new at school, and another with complex behavioral problems. They both end up forming a relationship with the school counselor and improving their situations. The story can be simplistic at times, which I guess is to be expected in a kids' book. I thought the young, pretty counselor who's disapproved of by the parents was a bit of a cliche (this book was very reminiscent of "The Cat Ate My Gymsuit" at times), but I imagine young readers will be less cynical than I am. Overall, the story is engaging and there's actually a lot to discuss. The themes are interesting and Sachar has good insight into kids."
"A boy named Bradley Chalkers is the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He has no friends and he wasn't good at behaving he was a bad student. He later on goes to a counselor named Carla and she helps Bradley become a good boy. She thinks that Bradley could behave well but Bradley was afraid of trying. She helps Bradley a lot and Bradley started to do well. Also he made friends with the new kid in class name Jeff Fishkins who is a nice boy. Jeff also helps him with his behavior problems. In the end he starts getting more friends and is becoming a behaved student and is happy. The sad thing is that the school counselor Carla moved to another school, but he's happy for her."
"I don't remember much from the book, but I do remember feeling SO connected to the main character.
As a kid, you assume that you're the only one who feels so alone, so weak, so strange and out of place in the world. When I picked this book up (for no apparent reason that I remember) I realized with astonishment that there were other kids in the world who staged elaborate imaginary stories with their animal toys, that there were other kids who felt special sitting at their dad's desk, doing homework with a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil rather than a wrinkled paper from the bottom of the bookbag and a dull pencil.
These details stuck with me more than the story itself, because it made the character so real to me. I'm excited to reread this one, to relive the magic that only reading can bring."
"The last person anyone wants to sit by in class is Bradley Chalkers, an angry, lying, and yet fascinating boy. As the story begins, the reader learns that nobody likes Bradley and that Bradley doesn't like anybody, and it's not until counselor Carla shows up that the reason is revealed: Bradley is afraid to try anything because he is afraid to fail. Bradley could easily be an unlikable character, but the reader sees him in all aspects of his life: in school, where he is the outcast; in his room, talking to his animal figurines; and in the counselor's office, where he begins to come out of his shell. Repeated phrases ("Call the zoo if you don't believe me!") and awkward situations (the title being one of them) make for a humorous tale that shows, like many of Sachar's other works, the differences between children, who are shown as innocent and understanding, and adults, who are shown as unwilling to accept change and hard to deal with."
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